I upvoted, but mine’s a sighthound and she don’t care…

Obligatory “Because humans are crazy”

wut? I do it all the time (for niche stuff Lemmy’s not there yet with).

I’m on bazzite with a GTX980, and it’s been working flawlessly, so it’s not age. I assume you did

ujust sunshine-setup

but it’s worth checking.

No Gods, No Masters

Also, prefer the Stargate approach, but recognise Star Trek is likely more responsible.

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

TLDR:

Skip to today, and Big Tech is pursuing the same approach, often in the same states.

They too have funded front groups, hired an armada of lobbyists, donated millions to campaigns, and opened a firehose of lobbying money to replace real privacy laws with fake industry alternatives as ineffective as non-smoking sections.